Donald Trump Wins 5th Presidential Debate In Las Vegas

In his response Senator Rubio – who unlike Senator Cruz sits on Intelligence Committee – suggested that Senator Cruz’s comments might have revealed too much.

Trump complained about how he’s being treated, to which Bush responded: “If you think this is tough the way you’re being treated…this is a tough business”.

Rubio’s view was more in line with both the Bush and Obama administrations’ calls for backing the spread of democracy in the Middle East. He argued that Assad’s iron grip on power in Syria has allowed the Islamic State to thrive and said he “will not shed a tear” if he is pushed from power. “It’s not an attack”. Rubio said the legislation stripped the National Security Agency of valuable tools to track terrorists.

Rubio was citing a Cruz argument in 2013 that his amendment to an immigration-reform bill would make the overall package easier to pass. Cruz’s campaign recently claimed that the amendment was actually a “poison pill” to make the larger bill politically toxic. Mr Rubio supports a path to legalisation while Mr. Cruz does not.

Rubio has slammed Cruz for wanting to cut military spending.

During the main debate that followed among the top GOP presidential hopefuls, front-runner Donald Trump pledged he would remain loyal to the party and not run as an independent, WND reported. “I was against amnesty. I oppose legalization for those here illegally”. “I haven’t even started on Hillary”, Trump said.

This was not lost on viewers, who took to Twitter to criticize CNN, which hosted the debate, for failing to ask the candidates questions about other areas of foreign policy that have nothing to do with ISIS, Syria or domestic terror threats.

Cruz has previously supported broadening legal immigration in some cases. But Cruz also offered an amendment in 2013 to double the number of green cards, increase by 500 percent the number of temporary work permits for high-skilled foreigners and offer “legal status” – but not citizenship – to millions of undocumented immigrants. “Marco knows what he’s saying isn’t true”, Cruz said. “We are being killed, we are being beaten by everybody”.

This week’s Republican debate did little to scramble the GOP presidential horserace, according to the first national poll fielded since the showdown.

Mr. Trump reiterated his proposal that has outraged a wide section of world opinion but found support among a substantial Republican segment and a section of the media. More than 7 in 10 Democrats are in favor.

“We can’t disassociate ourselves from peace-loving Muslims”.

Rubio has two events in Iowa Thursday.

For a few hours Wednesday, political observers jumped all over a suggestion from the chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Richard Burr that his staff would look into whether Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks in Las Vegas.